Queen's Evidence

Maude Adams played a male role in this play, that of Alfred.

(about the play in general)

American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1869-1914 Book by Gerald Bordman; Oxford University Press, 1994

Conquest and Pettitt's eight-year-old Queen's Evidence ( 3-17- 84), Mount Morris) had been tried out several seasons before in Boston and elsewhere under the title A Free Pardon and had failed. Most likely only the need to fill the stages of a rapidly growing number of combination houses prompted its revival. An undistinguished cast played out its story of a wife, wrongly accused of infidelity, who is deserted by her husband. When he later recognizes her innocence he returns to her, finding she has gone blind and is menaced by a man who attempts to drown her by throwing her in a canal. Just the melodramatic escapism sought by patrons of neighborhood houses, it played a week here and a week there, remaining on lesser circuits for several seasons.

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The Oakland Tribune, May 5, 1912

The Oakland Tribune, May 5, 1912

The first article is a playbill. Notice that Maude Adams is called "Little Maud Adams" in the play. The second article, indeed both, are referring to the play as an historical event.

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